PITCAIRN, Thomas (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister 1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. d. Bonnyrig 21 Dec. 1854. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 438–48 portrait; Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i, part 1, p. 274.
PITMAN, Frederick. b. Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller, phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row 1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death; The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer 1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. d. Oak lawn, Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.
PITMAN, John Rogers. b. 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb. 1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels, London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808, 2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s sermon on the mount 1852. d. 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27 Aug. 1861.
PITMAN, Joseph (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, b. 1815). b. 1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. d. Worthing about 1 April 1895.
PITMAN, Mrs. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were united in July 1846. d. Feb. 1858. Sporting Review xxxix 153 (1858).
PITMAN, Samuel (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall, Norfolk, d. 1854). b. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3 seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. The Times 19 April 1886 p. 5.
PITMAN, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London). b. 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828 to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. d. Eastbourne 11 May 1890. I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p. 646 portrait.
PITTMAN, Josiah. b. 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn 1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern, Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box; author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral 1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858; The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40 songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album, 45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of 40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is attached to upwards of 100 works. d. 228 Piccadilly, London 23 April 1886. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 12.
PITT, Charles Dibdin (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). b. 1819; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March 1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March 1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; m. 1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. d. 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21 Feb. 1866. bur. Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. Tallis’ Drawing-room table book 1851, Part 20 portrait; M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 61–9; The Era 25 Feb. 1866 p. 11, 4 March p. 10; Illust. Sporting News 16 March 1866 pp. 129, 142; Ireland’s New York stage ii 486 (1867).
PITT, George Dean-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814; took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819, lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H. 1836. d. New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. G.M. Sept. 1851 p. 328.